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OTTAWA, Dec 8 – Viola Desmond, a black businesswoman who challenged racial segregation in Canada in 1946, will be the new face of the C$10 bill, the government said on Thursday, making her the first Canadian woman to be featured on a bank note. Desmond refused to leave a whites-only Nova Scotia movie theater in

TORONTO, Dec 1 – If getting charged with impaired driving is not enough, police in a small Canadian town are hoping adding Nickelback music to the punishment will be enough to keep drunk partiers away from the wheel. In a Facebook post over the weekend, Kensington police in the province of Prince Edward Island asked

Newsweek Middle East sat down for an exclusive interview with the famed young poet Rupi Kaur By Arfa Shahid Rupi Kaur has an air about her. As the 24-year-old walks into a room, silence engulfs the place. She commands respect. People want to listen to what she has to say. And then she speaks, with a

By Jeffrey Hodgson TORONTO, Nov 9 – Maybe some Americans were serious when they threatened they would move to Canada if Republican presidential candidate became successful in his often polarizing campaign for the White House. Canada’s main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major

By Leah Schnurr OTTAWA, Nov 1 – Canada said on Monday it would let 300,000 immigrants into the country in 2017, maintaining this year’s target despite recommendations to increase it to help spur economic growth and help business leaders bring in more talent. Immigration Minister John McCallum told reporters that making the 300,000 target permanent

By Dr. Filiz Çakir Phillip The devastating civil war in Syria has captured the world’s attention. In response to this, the Aga Khan Museum is offering a world premiere exhibition that tells a different side of Syria’s story, one that reminds us of the artistic achievements and cultural diversity of both ancient and present day Syria.

A tiny house in Canada did not appeal to Aida Sabra BY Mostapha Raad World renowned Lebanese singer Fairouz never imagined that after decades of singing her song “A Tiny House in Canada,” that someday, another Lebanese woman will hate residing in the cold Northern American country, after getting used to living in Lebanon’s chaos. Sitt

By Jim Day CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, Sept 21 – All schools in the small Canadian province of Prince Edward Island were evacuated because of a “potential threat” on Wednesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. The police said the students were being taken to safe locations in their communities around the island, which is

TORONTO, Aug 21 – A homemade bomb set off last week by a Canadian man who was apparently inspired by Daesh, failed to fully detonate, a senior police official told the National Post newspaper on Saturday. While there was a blast in the back seat of a taxi in Strathroy, Ontario, as police closed in,

MANILA, April 27 – Villagers in the southern Philippines found a headless body on Wednesday, an army spokesman said, two days after the execution of a Canadian captive by Islamist militants, condemned as a “cold-blooded murder” by Canada’s prime minister. Security is precarious in the southern Philippines, despite a 2014 peace pact between the government